My Son's Mandrakes — Genesis 30:9–15

    
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07 · GadOF ZILPAH · GEN 30:9–11
When Leah saw that she had left off bearing, she took Zilpah her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob to wife. And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bare Jacob a son. And Leah said, Fortunate! and she called his name Gad.
08 · AsherOF ZILPAH · GEN 30:12–13
And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bare Jacob a second son. And Leah said, Happy am I! for the daughters will call me happy: and she called his name Asher.

    And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah.
Then Rachel said to Leah,
Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.
GEN 30:14

      And she said unto her,
Is it a small matter that thou hast taken away my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also?
GEN 30:15

      And Rachel said,
Therefore he shall lie with thee to-night for thy son's mandrakes.
— 147 —Genesis 30:9–15ASV